Week 5 Presentations

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In this week's unit I explored the reaches of PowerPoint. Although I have used PowerPoint for years in schooling, home and university, there were some new aspects that I wanted to play around with.
In my dabbling, I created a fun PowerPoint, which I labelled The Benefits of PowerPoint. Unfortunately, in order to properly view the transitions in this PowerPoint document, you will have to download it. In experimentation of adding this document to my blog, I uploaded it to google slides and lost the fun transitions on the pages. I have edited the google slides PowerPoint, but the transitions do not have the same effect that they do on PowerPoint.

The settings of PowerPoint make it a very diverse application that strives to achieve the requirements for many types of presentations. It incorporates both audio and video recording software to match the pace and slides of the PowerPoint. It allows for interactivity on the slides using buttons and animation.

Using the online Microsoft version, there is the capability for multi-authoring on PowerPoint. This is achieved through person 1 creating and sharing the document with person 2. A person can share with editing enabled to as many people as they wish.

There are many ways to customise PowerPoint, as there are several ways that it can be implemented into university, school or business life. PowerPoint allows for recordings, posters, infographics, presentations and more. It is a very diverse app that will fit most requirements of a desired outcome. You can add audio to each page via the insert tab and automate the slide changes using the timer section in the transitions tab.




To create buttons, one simply creates a textbox with an answer, clicks on it -> insert -> link -> place in this document -> slide name.



As with all technology, it is important to have a base knowledge before a person can claim that an application is "easy to use." With a base knowledge and some visual instruction, a person will be able to relatively easily navigate the operations of PowerPoint. If someone comes from a technologically-deficit background, it will not be an easy experience. They will require more attention than the average user and may become more frustrated when they do not understand what they are doing.

As with all students on the internet, they have to understand the risk of over-sharing information and misinformation. Students need to be aware of the dangers surrounding the online world. Students should be aware of the damages of breaching academic integrity. At the start of every term utilising digital technology in classes, there should be at least half a lesson dedicated to the etiquette, morality and safety of using technology and the internet.

A SAMR model utilising PowerPoint could be demonstrated as such:
S - Providing lessons on PowerPoint instead of the classroom whiteboard. Replaces the issue of teacher having their backs to a classroom.
A - Allowing students to create notes on their own PowerPoints, incorporating images and graphs. This allows students to always have legible work to review later in the term.
M - Having students complete tasks on a PowerPoint presentation. Students could prepare short stories using images and text to assist in visualising the stories. Students could also create presentations to give to the class in small groups, studying specific topics in a class.
R - Encouraging students to create interactive presentations for storytelling and revision. Students can create question slides in a revision PowerPoint similar to the example in the week 5 Moodle page, linking a question page to two answer pages - one with a "wrong answer" and clue, and the second page with the correct answer. 

Comments

  1. Alyssa20 April 2023 at 02:44

    Hi Renee, I found your blog post very insightful. I enjoyed reading your comparison on embedding different PowerPoint presentations. For example, I was unaware of the multi-author function in the Microsoft version. I thought this was a useful collaboration tool to boost interaction between peers. Furthermore, your assessment about technology being "easy to use" was valuable in understanding how students learn. It is important that teachers create more effective learning methods to foster Information and Communication Technology Capabilities.

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